2016 TESLA MODEL X — Complaint #2148351
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NHTSA Complaint about STRUCTURE:BODY:DOOR:HANDLE:INTERIOR filed November 13, 2025
NHTSA complaint #2148351 (ODI reference 11699199) concerns a 2016 TESLA MODEL X and was filed on November 13, 2025. The owner reports the failure occurred on November 10, 2025. The report was geocoded to California based on the filer's self-reported location. The affected component is categorized as structure:body:door:handle:interior, one of NHTSA's standardized taxonomy codes used to group defect patterns across make, model, and year.
The filer flagged the following severity indicators: crash: no, fire: no, injuries: 0, fatalities: 0. No crash, fire, or fatality was associated with this report, which places it in the early-warning stream rather than the priority-review stream. Because a VIN was supplied, this complaint is tied to a specific vehicle and not just a model-year cohort.
Individual complaints are consumer-submitted and unverified by NHTSA engineers — the agency's role at this stage is to collect, index, and make them searchable. What matters for federal action is the pattern: when many owners of the same TESLA MODEL X cohort independently describe similar structure:body:door:handle:interior failures, defect investigators have grounds to open a PE and request manufacturer data. Related filings for the same vehicle and component appear below, and the detail page for the full 2016 TESLA MODEL X shows the complete component-level complaint distribution alongside any active investigations or recalls.
Complaint Description
Problem: Driver door fails to open The door actuator and latch will intermittently fail and the door will refuse to open. In the event of an accident the driver can fail to exit the vehicle possibly leading to death. An independent party/dealer has not produced the problem. No representative has looked at the problem. No warnings of failure appear.
Complaint Details
| NHTSA Complaint ID | 2148351 |
| ODI Number | 11699199 |
| Date Filed | November 13, 2025 |
| Failure Date | November 10, 2025 |
| VIN | 5YJXCBE28GF |
Source: NHTSA Vehicle Complaints Database. Component taxonomy and severity codes are standardized by NHTSA Office of Defects Investigation.
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